Two days after Mirabel returned, Aleric held her luna's ceremony without delay. Apparently, the reason he felt their bond broke when she got kidnapped was because she was poisoned with some kind of spell which instantly subdued her wolf, but that was not even the crazy part. The poison slowly erased both her scent and the mark Aleric gave her until she became completely bare and unscentable. This in turn made Aleric undergo the severe pains of losing his mate. It was a miracle that the anguish didn't make him go berserk. Who ever prepared such a poignant poison came prepared. Phillipe, under a painful confessional spell, revealed everything. He was just the middle man in the plot. In his words, his master only wanted two things: destroy the whole of the werewolf race, and forcefully mate w
